Addressing hand stamp



P. O. LIEN ADDRESSING HAND STAMP Filed Ju y 1924 I a I Peter 0. Lien resme May 4 1926.

. star-ss; mwah-r mund LEN, oE womjnmq roi; MINNESOTAL ADDRESSING, HANLD s'rA vIr. j i\ Application filed- July 14, 1924; seri-al No. 725307:

" sired combina-tion of the charaoters on the several chsks 'may be brought into alnement.

- ?for p rinting the combination. n i

Such devices have .been constructed here t'ofore having the disks. arranged to lock when adjusted, the locking'being e'fiected:

' upon the disk being' movedlongitudinally on the shaft to a certain position; the move-.

'ment from: such looking position of any disk being resisted by a spring Contacting With the particular disk. With such Construction eachdisk requiresa separate spring so that `there are asmany sprngs as chsks.

The principalobject of the present invenj tion is to provide a novel device ot this character wherein the Construction is so 'simpliy fied that a single spring suflices to hold all of the disks in locked position, the Construction nevertheless permitting free withdrawal of any disk from such looking position to permit its rotation.

With the above and other objeets in view one form of the invention will now be de-,

scribed in detail and afterwards specifically point-ed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanyng drawings, wheren zr Figure 1 is a perspective View of the complete device.

Figure 2 is a, section taken longitudinally through the lower part of the' stamp, the

disks being shown locked in full lines and one disk being shown in broken lines in its unloeked position.

Fi ure 3 is a sectonvsimilar to Figure 2.

but with both disks moved to unlocked position.

Figur-e 4; is a section on the line H of Figure 2.

Figure 5 is a section on the lineof Figure 2.V

Figure 6 s a detail showing a face view i of' the: fixed: 'on permanent portion of the stamp.

; Figure made by the stamp. e

'In the. present embodinent' the invention has beenishown: as especially adapted to stamp .addresses for rural mail routes and. to' that end the device is: prvided' with a- U shaped 'frane of: bar metal having a base 1301451011 10 and downwardly'extending legs 11, iv hereof the,extremity'of` one leg. is pro-.

videcl With an inwardly eXtendin-g 'foot' 12 Parallel to the base; 10; Centrally. of:: the 'ramebase there is :providedthe 'usual' handle 13` Secured" in: position' by: a screw 14.

Between the legs 1:1 extends a shaft 15 which 'is suita-hlysecur ecl` in position 'asi by having its: endssriveted oven at 16, and; on-

this; shaft is: rotatably;` moimted thesdisksorz' drums, thesebeing in thisparticular embo'di-. ment adisk 1'7 and adrum 18; For the` purposeyof: generall'y groupi-ng these devices:

7 is aview showing the impression both the disk and, the& drum Will be termed I type-wheels? asthey are-- each of polygonal form and have on their sides the printing type or characters 19: As: w-ll` be readily understoodthe number of type wheels may be varied to suit the particular use forwhich the stamp is intended.` For instance a dating stamp may have separate type wheels i for i the years, the months and two day wheels, one bearing the numbers 1, 2 and 3 and the other numbers from O to 9. However, such 'changes tin Construction being within ordinary meohanical Construction it' s not necessary here to llustrate the same.

Irrespective of the number of type wheels,

these wheels are so arrangeol that they oc -cupy the greater portion of the space be-` tween the inner end of the foot12 and the opposed leg 11, room being left to afi'ord suffioient movement of the wheels longitu'di-- .rally of the shaft to permit unlocking thereof for rotation, the foot 12 thus aeting as a stop' as well as a support for fixed type 20. The leg 11 opposite the foot is provided with a looking or setting pin and the adjacent end of the drum 18 is provided with a series of reoesses 22 corresponding in number and position to the several sets of type 19 on that drum. Similarly the adjace'nt ends of the disk and-drum are pro vided with the looking pin 23 and the series of recesses 24:; Between the disk 17 and the leg`11 carrying the foot 12 is provided a spring 25 which is ooiled around the shaft i i and is arranged'to urge the type wheels into looking engagement with each other and with the opposed leg 11.

The device here shown has the type ou the leg arranged to print the words Patronv and Route as shown at 26 in Figure 7. The disk is provided with rural route numbers 27 and the drum carries city or town addresses as at 28 sothat after impressing the stamp as shown in Fgure 7 it is only necessary to insert the name of the patron. In operation the route numbers may be changed by moving the disk to the left against the spring action as shown by the broken lines in Figure 2 so that it is free from the drum and may then be rotated. When it is desired to change the city or town address both parts are moved as in Figure 3 and both turned to bring the propei` town name in position. The drum is then shifted back to locked position and the disk turned to set it for the proper route. Other forms of the' device 'are set in like manner, all of the typewheels being moved to the left and successively set from right to left.

Besides the changes in the number of type` wheels and the indications thereon otherchanges will 'also suggest themselves to those skilled in the art which will fall within the scope claimed. Hence it is not my intention to limit the invention to the exact form here shown and described.

Having thus described the invention, I claim i v 1. In a stamp of the class described, a

frame having spaced legs, a shaft supported shaft and hearing at one end on the side of the remaining end wheel and at its other end against the remaining leg, said last mentioned leg having its free end bent inwardly to form a stop for the wheels when they are moved to non-looking position.

2. In a stamp of the class described, a frame having spaced legs, a shatt'supported by said legs and extendng between them, type wheels slidable and rotatable on said shaft, one end wheel and the adjacent leg being provided with slidably interlocking positioning means, the adjacent end of adjacent wheels being also provided with slidably interlocking positioning elements, and

a' single coiled compression spring on said shaft and hearing at one' end on the side of the remaining end wheel and at its other end against the remaining leg, and a foot on said last leg projecting towards the first leg and forming a stop for said wh-eels and a type support.

In testimony whereof I aflx my signs ture.

PETER o. LIEN. 

